Lorena Saelices, MBBS, PhD

Assistant Professor
Center for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Lorena Saelices, MBBS, PhD

Dr. Saelices earned her B.S. in biology and her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Seville, where her training focused on molecular biology and structural biology. She performed postdoctoral research at ETH Zürich and UCLA, and was an Assistant and Associate Project Scientist at UCLA, where she focused on protein aggregation to develop new potential therapeutic strategies for transthyretin amyloidosis and Alzheimer's disease.

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